forum thread Posted by Lam_911 • Jun 12, 2024
Jun 12, 2024 11:00 PM
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forum thread Posted by Lam_911 • Jun 12, 2024
Jun 12, 2024 11:00 PM
Costco in store HP Dragonfly G4 Laptop: i7-1355U, 13.5" Touch, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD $899.97
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I'm absolutely not convinced by fake benchmarks, we're literally a week away from release and not a single review has come out.
The Software Engineer in me says the following.
The Snapdragon Laptops are amazing, when they work, but are absolutely horrible when they run into use cases where they don't.
You have gaming benchmarks, but according to the official Microsoft docs anti cheat ( most multiplayer games ) won't work. Anything with a custom driver probably won't work. I imagine the X86 emulator will run into all types of weird edge cases.
Plus Recall is really concerning.
I don't feel like beta testing for Microsoft. Let them work the kinks out, buy a Snapdragon laptop in a few years.
Porsche - Intel
Pinto - Arm
Two different chips for two different needs. A lot of people are quick to just say "one is better".
Anyway, nice find, this is close to the Thinkpad NANO. I have a nano g1, and it's been fantastic and mine has the better screen option..
I also would NOT recommend the snapdragon laptops, as Windows on ARM is still garbage. 99.99% of applications for Windows are written to only support x86-x64 (so only Intel and AMD), this means that basically every application has to be translated to ARM, which means efficiency and performance take a hit, and some applications straight up crash or have issues do to that. This isnt reflected in benchmarks as these days almost every benchmark natively supports ARM.
The other issue is GPU drivers, in ARM based benchmarks the iGPU looks great, but in actual games it underperforms both Intel and AMD's existing iGPUs because the drivers are bad and will require years of work.
If you are concerned about power efficiency, get Core Ultra today via Meteor Lake or wait for Lunar Lake, or get Zen 4.
Porsche - Intel
Pinto - Arm
Two different chips for two different needs. A lot of people are quick to just say "one is better".
Anyway, nice find, this is close to the Thinkpad NANO. I have a nano g1, and it's been fantastic and mine has the better screen option..
Again, great for light tasks like pulling up a recepie. The Dragonfly would be a great lightweight laptop.
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